Oct 17 2017

Everyone has their own opinion on what a disability is, but do they really know? Having a disability in school can make your school day a bit different than someone who doesn’t have a disability. There are many different types of disabilities and there are different levels of each disability. Sometimes they don’t affect your life in a big way and for other people, they affect everything.

A student here at Central Kitsap has said that having disability makes school hard. This student has a learning disability in reading and math, but they said that even though they had this disability, school is still good for them. Another student with a disability also said how they are in clubs such as Drama Club and they enjoy going to those. These students and many others don’t let disabilities get in the way of them living their daily lives. 

If a student has a physical or mental disability that is prominent in their lives than those students will be a part if a Special Education program at their school. “We create plans for each individual student in the program based on what they want to do as an adult,” states one of the Life Skills teachers, Robin Bailey. Bailey explains that this program helps the students because some of them need to be taught things at a different pace than the rest of the general education student population.

“I would love to see the general education kids treat my kids with more respect, like just be careful with what you say, because whether it’s aimed at that person or not they automatically think it’s about them,” says Bailey. Just because the students in these programs learn at a different pace doesn’t mean that they are very different than the general education student population.